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The Globalization of business, finance, trade, travel, fashion, construction, engineering, art, communication and science has almost been completed. Yet, every
year, thousands of tons of perfectly healthy food, feed and fiber crops are destroyed due to discrepancies in the authorizations and uses of plant protection products. It happens when growers in
an export country have used a plant protection product on a crop which is not authorized for this use in the importing country.

Such barriers to the equal distribution of food, feed and fiber are non-tariff trade-barriers that can not be resolved in a court room but only through global
cooperation in the authorization of plant protection products among and between farmers, processors, traders, the pesticide industry and government. If we are sincere in wanting to eliminate
world hunger we need to cooperate. This can only be accomplished by using the tools and guidelines that have been developed by governments and companies from OECD member and observer
states.